Word: haggard
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...haggard, hot-eyed Bittner, who speaks softly off the stump, heard 856 delegates, claiming to represent 78,000 workers, unanimously vote to strike all Armour plants if the big firm declines to negotiate with the C. I. O. Then he told reporters...
Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
Last fortnight, looking far from haggard, 180-lb. Churchman Noe once more mounted a Memphis pulpit. More than 100 Memphis citizens, some of them non-Episcopalians, had petitioned the Tennessee Diocesan Convention for permission to form a new parish, to be named St. James'. Permission granted, the parish invited popular Mr. Noe to be its rector. Pending the raising of money to build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known...
Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from lowered brows; stroked his jaw; hunched his shoulders; thrust out his chin-a homely figure...
...traditional style, Broadway, after a haggard week-before-Christmas, had a full-to-bursting holiday week. One matinee day accumulated, around Manhattan, 681 standees, biggest matinee box office since 1929. The period was crammed with openings, three of them in the nature of comebacks...